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Stage 1 (Newbie)

- reads the forum from time to time

- has been caught by boss giggling at Forum

- has posted on someone else's thread

- has very possibly been given a kicking by regular Forumites for "having a hidden agenda"

- is seriously but nervously considering going to a Forum drink

- number of posts less than 100


Stage 2 (Regular)

- reads the Forum weekly, even on holiday

- has started a thread on a frivolous topic

- no longer gets a telling off by boss for unexplained random giggling, just receives a hard look and a sigh

- wouldn't miss a Forum drink

- number of posts less than 500


Stage 3 (Addict)

- reads the Forum daily, even on holiday

- has started a thread on a serious topic, and fought off opposition from all comers

- Forum has been mentioned in annual appraisal

- invites other Forumites to important personal events in Real Life

- has secret crush on one or more other prominent Forumite

- has trouble deciding whether to go to next Forum drink or brother's wedding

- number of posts less than 2000


Stage 4 (Conversion Complete)

- has difficulty distinguishing between Forum and Real Life.

- gets jittery if not able to log on several times a day

- has had Forum addiction cited in breakup with partner / divorce proceedings / getting fired

- has been summoned to the Quiet Room

- (if male) has not-so-secret crush on Dulwichmum

- (if female) has not-so-secret crush on James Nesbitt - (only kidding!)

- number of posts ...

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It was a post of Annaj's a while ago.. she got summoned to the Quiet Room and commented that this must be 'stage 4 Forumitis'. That's where I got the idea from, so thought I'd acknowledge my source...


I'll edit the original to correct!


:))


P.S. You and I pretty much live in the Quiet Room, so maybe we should be issuing the invites... ;-)

What's the word for those people who appear on the forum, usually very dramatically, kick up a stink, and then disappear from sight.... I'm thinking Spangles; I'm thinking that funny old kid-hating piano teacher; the more recent poster about the Youth Offender Centre opening... where are they in the scheme of things... are they all sitting in a rehab session together (or around one big cauldron) as we speak? We need to know!

Bellenden Belle Wrote:

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> What's the word for those people who appear on the

> forum, usually very dramatically, kick up a stink,

> and then disappear from sight.... I'm thinking

> Spangles; I'm thinking that funny old kid-hating

> piano teacher; the more recent poster about the

> Youth Offender Centre opening... where are they in

> the scheme of things... are they all sitting in a

> rehab session together (or around one big

> cauldron) as we speak? We need to know!


Are they trolls?


When I was still lurking I read a few posts from Spangles - made my eyes water!

Not sure these are trolls or flamers as such. Just people that come in with a chip on their shoulder and SOMETHING TO SAY, then can't understand why people are attacking them, so retreat.


This is the classic academic explanation known as the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory

 

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> Moos original post had of laughing out loud on the

> bus just now.

>

> and dont. . Im well aware that reading the forum

> on the bus makes me a stage 9


You would have been rumbled anyway. Classic giveaway that someone is posting from a mobile. Use of the word ?of? in stead of ?me?

stage 1. Lurker for a few weeks

stage 2. register, to post indignant rant against limp wristed, left wing, liberallist something, now long forgotten.

stage 3. uses forum to vent random parts of personality for five minutes, days, weeks....

stage 4. gets spotted by forum police as suspected trouble maker

stage 5. learns to apologise to receivers of any/all previous offensive posts

stage 6. tip-toe around peoples sensitivies, to accomodate all other forum users, when one naturally favours the 'Gengis khan positition' leaning slightly towards more 'rightish' sympathies

Yes, I think my original post was a bit linear. We need a flow chart with options for people to come in like lions or lambs and then either flame off into the sunset or settle down with a pipe. Plus you have serious Forumites and then dilettanteish people like me who just head straight for the Lounge. Oh, it's all getting too complicated! And apparently (according to Brendan) there are further stages beyond 5 (thanks lozzyloz) but they're not allowed to talk about it...

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